Canto V, versión en inglés

(translation: Alan E. Smith,
in "Spain’s Poetry of Conscience", 
International Poetry Review;
vol 32, North Carolina, 2006)


Row upon row
next to this wire fence of hearts, powerful insolent algae,
if the rifle was able to perforate practically the whole conscience
and our children have been falling
as if in a silence of palms
forever reddened. If  (…)